Ancestry of
John Brown

American Abolitionist

Owen Brown

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• • Father of John Brown — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • John Brown 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Owen   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Feb 1771 
  • Birth Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 May 1856 
  • Death Location:
  • Hudson, Summit, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Hudson Township Burying Ground, Hudson, Summit, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Mills
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Feb 1793 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Brown (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Frederick Brown

  • Notes: 

  • Founder of Western Reserve College (now Case Western Reserve University).

• Additional marriages for Owen Brown

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  • Spouse:
  • Sally Root
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Nov 1809
  • Marriage Location:
  • Portage County, Ohio

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  • Spouse:
  • Lucy Hinsdale
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Apr 1841
  • Marriage Location:
  • Summit County, Ohio

• Sources for Owen Brown

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Torrington, p. 10, Birth record for son John Brown.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Torrington, p. 10, Marriage record for Owen Brown and Ruth Mills at Symsbury.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 20, Birth record for Owen Brown.
  • ⁴ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A015553 and #A079905.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/01/2015).
  • ⁶ Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, Marriage record for Owen Brown and Lucy Hinsdale.
  • ⁷ Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, Marriage record for Owen Brown and Sally Root.
  • ⁸ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 19.
  • ⁹ Brown, Abiel, Genealogical History with Short Sketches and Family Record of the Early Settlers of West Simsbury, Now Canton, Conn., Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1856), 100.
  • ¹⁰ Johnson, Mary Coffin, The Higleys and their Ancestry: An Old Colonial Family, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 442.
  • ¹¹ Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 129.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/08/2017).
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Owen Brown (college founder)", (accessed 04/01/2015).